Religion Quotes

The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

Sports is, somehow, a religion.

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in.

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.

My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Religion is collective insanity.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's a reason for so much tragedy.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory.

Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

I never mix my religion with politics. But I feel values are very important.

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected.

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.